One never reaches home... But wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Heim kommt man nie...Aber wo befreundete Wege zusammenlaufen, da sieht die ganze Welt für eine Stunde wie Heimat aus.

Hermann Hesse

Demian

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Topic

Home

Speaker

Frau Eva

Author

Hermann Hesse

Source

Demian

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

German

Time

1919 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Nobel laureate Writer

From

Switzerland Europe

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hesse, Hermann. Demian [Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

Current Citation

Hesse, Hermann. Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth. Translated by Damion Searls. Penguin, 2013.

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Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.

Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha

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Siddhartha

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Hermann Hesse
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Siddhartha
Language
German
Time
1922 1920s 20th century
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Original Citation

Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung [Siddhartha: An Indian Novel]. 1922, pt. 2.

Current Citation

Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha, trans. Joachim Neugroschel. Penguin, 2002.

Another quote from the 1910s

The world must be made safe for democracy.

Woodrow Wilson

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America and the world International politics
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Woodrow Wilson
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1917 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Wilson, Woodrow. Address to Congress Requesting a Declaration of War Against Germany. Congress Meeting. 2 April 1917. US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA. Address.

Current Citation

Wilson, Woodrow. "Address to a Joint Session of Congress Calling for a Declaration of War." Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-President. Edited by Mario R. DiNunzio. New York University Press, 2006.

Another quote about Home

Be it granted me to behold you again in dying, Hills of home!

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Home

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1896 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "To S. R. Crockett." Songs of Travel. Chatto & Windus, 1896, st. 3.

Another quote from 1919

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

Sherwood Anderson

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Looking for love
Speaker
Stranger

Author

Sherwood Anderson
Source
Tandy
Medium
Short story
Language
English
Time
1919 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Anderson, Sherwood. "Tandy." Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life. B. W. Huebsch, 1919.

Another quote originally in German

God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Gay Science

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Existence of God God Decline of religion Atheism Human nature

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
The Gay Science
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
German
Time
1882 1880s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Die fröhliche Wissenschaft. [The Gay Science]. 1882. Translated by Walter Kaufman, Vintage Books, March 1974.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Gay Science. Translated by Walter Kaufman, Vintage Books, 1974, aphorism, 261.